exclude

CEFRB2

/ɪksˈkluːd/

verb

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.
to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs
[T]he 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically to exclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country.

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One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...].
1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766
[T]he 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically to exclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country.
2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents
[…] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]
1669, John Baptiſta Porta, chapter V, in Natural Magick, The Third Book Of Natural Magick: […] , page 68

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Borrowed from Latin exclūdō, from prefix ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudō (“close”).